Julie Ivy
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Julie Simmons Ivy is the department chair of and professor in the department of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan.[1] Her research involves health care statistics[2] and the application of systems engineering to health care[3] and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.[4][5]
Ivy graduated from the University of Michigan in 1991 and completed a master's degree in 1992 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She returned to Michigan for doctoral study, completing a Ph.D. in 1998.[2] Her dissertation, Determining Maintenance and Replacement Policies for a Multi-State Deteriorating Process with Probabilistic Monitoring, was supervised by Stephen M. Pollock.[6]
She worked as a faculty member in the School of Business at the University of Michigan from 1998 to 2007 before moving to North Carolina State University,[2][6] where she was a professor of industrial and systems engineering and a Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering.